It’s written from a position of the unusual experience of having grown up around a working forge ... constant companion to a blacksmith’s hammer is a pair of tongs. These can be bought ...

For me, the area I decided to try out was blacksmithing ... enough for shaping with a hammer, working on an anvil, and later a chisel. This is the art of forging or shaping metal by hammering.

The set-up looks old-school – a furnace, anvil and two blacksmiths hammering in tandem to coax a hot steel rod into a pair of tongs. But for Adam’s Forge in Los Angeles’ Glassell Park ...

It is an incredible amount of work to forge a pair of fireplace tongs. Like, this blacksmith should be awarded with a medal that lets everyone know that they should pat him on the back.

June workshops include Blacksmithing Fundamentals with Tony Stewart and Hammers and Tongs with Funk and Knives for the Outdoors with Jordan LaMothe. In July, Funk will teach Forging from the ...

In a small tin shed in a country town roughly 200 kilometres south of Perth, an old blacksmith is honing ... and I got a taste of forging with an instructor who was a metal sculptor," she ...